Alias Grace: A NovelKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 08.06.2011 - 480 Seiten The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers. |
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YOUNG MANS FANCY | 43 |
BROKEN DISHES | 93 |
SECRET DRAWER | 135 |
SNAKE FENCE | 181 |
FOX AND GEESE | 233 |
HEARTS AND GIZZARDS | 283 |
LADY OF THE LAKE | 325 |
FALLING TIMBERS | 345 |
SOLOMONS TEMPLE | 367 |
PANDORAS BOX | 391 |
THE LETTER X | 415 |
THE TREE OF PARADISE | 437 |
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Seite 19 - I have been struck," she said, "and I am suffering now; Yet these are little worth, your bolts and irons strong; And, were they forged in steel, they could not hold me long.
Seite 19 - ... woman, with a slight, graceful figure. There is an air of hopeless melancholy in her face which is very painful to contemplate. Her complexion is fair and must, before the touch of hopeless sorrow paled it, have been very brilliant. Her eyes are a bright blue, her hair auburn, and her face would be rather handsome were it not for the long curved chin which gives, as it always does to most persons who have this facial defect, a cunning, cruel expression.
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Género, identidad y lugar: un estudio de las geografías feministas Linda McDowell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2000 |
Older Women in the Criminal Justice System: Running Out of Time Azrini Wahidin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |